Steady Viewing from Utah

At last... a night with clear skies and relatively steady viewing conditions. I went for Saturn at f/40 tonight with the Ultima 2000 8" SCT. Here is a stack of 3019 frames from an AVI taken with a Toucam 840. This is the recorded image scale.... with no enlarging. I think it is my best Saturn image to date. Steady seeing makes me happy!!!
Cheers
Tyler

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Sweeeeet image Tyler! Congratulations for capturing also the C ring.
Keep on posting so the good seeing on your side of the world can make us a little happy too!


Luca

Tyler,

Not fair!!!! You are only 300-400 miles north of me and I can't get Saturn anywhere near that!! Congratulations on a fabulous image. At F/40 what sort of settings do you use on the Toucam? With my 9.25 at F/22 I have the brightness cranked all the way up and the gain at about 60% to get an intensity of 110-120 at 1/25sec.

Thanks!!
Paul Maxson

Tyler Allred said:

At last... a night with clear skies and relatively steady viewing conditions. I went for Saturn at f/40 tonight with the Ultima 2000 8" SCT. Here is a stack of 3019 frames from an AVI taken with a Toucam 840. This is the recorded image scale.... with no enlarging. I think it is my best Saturn image to date. Steady seeing makes me happy!!!
Cheers
Tyler

Hi Tyler,
That's a Beautiful Saturn! Not only excellent detail but very nice colors as well. Congratulations!!

Jim Phillips

Tyler,

Beautiful crisp detailed image of Saturn! Congrats!
Is'nt it much more fun and satifiying when the seeings good? Makes everything easier from focusing to processing!

great stuff

Mike W

Tyler,

That is definitely a keeper. Very nice.

Russell

Hi Tyler,

Congratulations on a great image. Nice details and color, and you also got the C Ring. Glad to see you had some good conditions. I always like to see nice images coming from 8" SCT's, but I may be a little biased.

Clear skies,

Ed Roach

Hi all. I am still excited about the viewing conditions last night... WOW! that was fun. I decided to reprocess my AVI file to see if I could do a better job. I also worked on the RGB levels in Photoshop to bring out more detail on the disk. Here is the latest version, resized to 150% and rotated to a more pleasing angle. What do you think? I can't decide if I like this bigger version better or not, but it does hold the resizing quite well. I'm happy!
Cheers,
Tyler

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Nice job, Tyler!

Maurizio

Hi Tyler,

Beautiful! image and very detailed, wow F/40 way to go!

Clear And Steady Skies,

Wes Higgins